Question

How does one query an Oracle 10g database to determine the degree of parallelism for a table? My searches have proved fruitless. I would anticipate it is something like this:

select degree   
from table_metadata

where table_metadata is metadata about my table.

Since parallelism seems to be unknown consider the following statement:

create table  foo  
...  
parallel (8);  

Here parallel (8) sets the degree of parallelism to 8

Answer 1

SELECT degree
  FROM user_tables
 WHERE table_name = <<some table name>>

will work assuming that you own the table. Otherwise, depending on your privileges, either use ALL_TABLES or DBA_TABLES rather than USER_TABLES and add a predicate on the OWNER column.